Exploring the History, Literature, and Culture of the Tar Heel State

Archive for July 27th, 2010

I was going to comment on this story, N.C. ranked fourth laziest state, but frankly I don’t have the energy. I wonder what’s on TV right now? Well, I’m too lazy to turn the TV on right now, so I’m just going to take a nap…

On this day in 1911: In Hamlet a freight train and a passenger train collide head-on, killing seven passengers and injuring 25. The passenger train had been loaded with Durham Sunday school members on an excursion to Charlotte. “Jim Crow service, using old wooden cars sandwiched between the newer steel ones, [subjected] those in the […]